This national alliance of immigrant, refugee, labor and civil rights groups released a summary of its report today, which concludes:

With the DHS’s ICE, Border Patrol and other local and state law enforcement agencies operating without accountability or effective oversight, immigrants have become especially vulnerable to abuse and violence. Now, immigrants, whether they are documented or undocumented, are the almost exclusive scapegoat for the faltering economy, the deterioration of services and social problems. In this officially condoned anti-immigrant climate, racial profiling,

exploitation in the workplace, hate violence and other public policies are being

used to deliberately force immigrants to leave or exist in the shadows.

For its report, the immigrant and refugee organization said it “analyzed over 100 stories of human rights violations and 188 incidents of immigration raids.”